While the commonplace approach of analysing the novel would be to place it within the context of its time of publication and/or the time frame the story is set in, this paper seeks to determine its current-day relevance in terms of how racial issues are treated within the American judicial system. 3. ... This part will look at the three most salient racial points raised in the novel and compare them against today's reality in Mississippi where "A Time to Kill" is set and other southern US-States. ... In an instance that also serves to establish Jake Brigance's view on the ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He served on the Court for 24 years until June 28th, 1991 when he announced his retirement due to advancing age and deteriorating health. ... Before serving on the Supreme Court, Marshall served as a legal director of the NAACP. ...

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Many African-American writers considered Toomer as a 'race traitor' as he so desperately tried to 'challenge his culture's demand for absolute distinctions between white and black'.5 His characters exemplify these boundaries set up by the Negro community, as progression seemed to be frowned upon. ... It seems that through writing Cane, Toomer was trying to grapple with his own racial identity 'set out to redefine already received stereotypes [surrounding] race'.10 Elizabeth Alexander in her novel Crave Radiance dedicated a poem to Toomer. ...

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Blanche Kelso Bruce (March 1, 1841-1898) was the first African-American who served a full term in the U.S. ... Bruce was a Republican senator representing Mississippi; he served from March 5, 1875 until March 3, 1881. ...

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Even Highly educated blacks ere routinely denied the right to vote or serve on juries. ... Soon it was obvious to the owners of the bus company and to the white community that the Blacks were not going to ride the buses unless their terms were met They wanted only three things: courteous treatment from drivers; seating on a first-come, first-served basis, and the employment of Black bus drivers. ... As King set out to build his new organization, the SCLC, his aims were to expand his network of supporters, and to learn more about planning protests. ...

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This paper will serve as a bridge between the two main arguments in the respective books and compare and contrast the lessons found within their text to the ideology of some of the most affluent civil rights leaders in world history. ... They consisted of a list of laws that set up a peonage similar to that of slavery. Furthermore, to set an example, nine southern states adopted vagrancy laws. ...

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In this instance King felt that his duty to obey the laws would not serve the common good as the laws were not laid out with the common good of all of society in mind, the Negro race was set to carry a heavier burden and receive a lesser benefit. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Additionally, for years, Blacks were unable to serve on juries, clearly affecting the way both Blacks and whites were tried. ... The police are the institution which serve as a gateway to the legal system, and thus it is only logical to look here first. ...

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This is just a small example of the doubt and hatred that was bestowed on the African American soldiers. However, during the war, they proved themselves to be brave and courageous men on and off the battlefield on many occasions. Despite deep prejudices and harsh criticisms from the white society, these men were true champions of patriotism. The cause of the Civil War was tension between the North and the South. The sectional division between the areas began in colonial times, largely resulting from geographical differences. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The music served the purpose of communication during this time period. ... And finally, music also served a tactical purpose in South African society. ... According to Ingrid Byerly, a former professor of ethnomusicology at Duke University, music, "served the purpose of mobilizing social change, whether with the more concrete intentions of invoking peace or threatening war, or with the more abstract intentions of recovering or reflecting a past, suggesting or establishing a present, and projecting or prophesying a future."" ...

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By cloaking his insights in ironic humor he may be certain that many of his readers may miss some of his intended or accidental enlightenment, which serves to minimize the force of the most painful implications. ... Roxana's exchange of her baby for her master's is paradoxically and unpredictably set in motion by the very system it violates, for the threat of being "sold down the river- makes her search for ways to avoid that fate, a process that in turn reminds her that unclothed babies look identical, and thus that the slave might be exchanged for the master. ...

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In America women and African Americans have been the oppressed group. The lack of equality between men and women is based solely off of the difference in human anatomy. While the lack of equality for African Americans are solely based off being of African descent in other words being "black" or havi...

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Theodore claims that in the modern era (1960's) such a violent and disturbing view of society simply serves to further inflame existing conflicts. ... By killing a white woman Bigger rejects in the most public way possible, the limitations set upon him by his oppressive society. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

After the Emancipation Proclamation, the Age of Reconstruction saw the introduction of Black codes in many Southern States as white officials, who had served the Confederacy, were elected to govern. ... The Bureau set up its own temporary three-man courts where blacks received fairer treatment than in military courts, suggesting that blacks gained some equality in the "de facto" sense. ...

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"Martin Luther King and his View of the American Dream" Introduction The reason why I have chosen the topic "Martin Luther King and his view of the American Dream" for my research paper has its roots in my early childhood. My mom was very impressed of King and read picture books about hi...

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Canada is a place full of cultural wealth. Many different kinds of people, cultures, and races live in Canada and call it their home. One race that had a significant role in the construction, molding and forming of Canada is the Black people and they really are not ever shown any gratitude for what they have done. This country owes them for what they have done and it is sad that we do not learn about Black history, not even in our high school Canadian history courses do we lean about black people in Canada. They did so much for their country even when life was not fair to them. ...

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When we start to believe in a hierarchy of races and decide to set ourselves at the top of that pyramid we are only strengthening the color lines that separate us and hinder our ability to function together in a democracy that values all people of different backgrounds. ...

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On the other hand, the separatism of American life, which required a separatist foundation to hold segregated exhibitions, the absence of repositories to collect and preserve the art, and the distortions of critics hostile to the very notion that Black people could make high art, only served to widen rather than narrow the breach (Collier, 1985). ...

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"To the slave, your celebration is a sham your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery .There is not a nation on the Earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States," stated Frederick Douglass at an Independence Day speech in New York. Like Douglass, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King realized that white people have committed injustices against blacks and as a result blacks do not have equal rights or opportunities and this has created problems in the black community. As a result of probl...

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Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on the Black community. The most common theories are that which circle HIV/AIDS. These theories have a devastating impact that effects the African American and Black South African population. ...

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• Grade Level: High School